today north korea agreed to give up its nuke weapons program and rejoin the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in return for security guarantees and economic and energy aid.
in other words, we more or less go back 4 years to the day before bush's axis of evil speech.
on npr's talk of the nation host neil conant asked "why today?"
the correct answer is "katrina."
n.korea knows the main strategic value of wmd is deterrence. as long as they feared an american invasion, they figured their best defense was to let the world know they had nukes, just as iraq would've done if they'd really had them.
as we got mired in iraquag, n.korea began to suspect we lacked sufficient strength to attack them.
the US guvmint's abysmal response to hurricane katrina convinced them.
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